Ngiyaa giingan girrwaa barrway PDF Print E-mail

We are on

Aunty Loretta Riley, Aunty Emily Walker, Uncle Bud Marshall
Aunty Loretta Riley, Aunty Emily Walker, Uncle Bud Marshall
e big happy family

If you’re be passing through the coastal NSW town of Nambucca Heads on a Tuesday morning, and you are very quiet, you might hear singing voices of the Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative Elders choir, drifting through the trees. They’re a special group because they are singing in Gumbaynggirr, the Indigenous language of that country, and the atmosphere is great.

Photocopied song sheets are given out, the guitar starts up, and away they go. It’s heaps of fun, and singing in language just feels right. Visit http://www.muurrbay.org.au/ to find out more about when the Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative Elders Choir are performing. Or just drop in and have a listen. You’ll love it.

Ngiyaa giingan girrwaa barrway
Maajagundi girrwaa, Maajagundi girrwaa
Ngiyaa giingan girrwaa barrway
Maajagundi girrwaa ngiyaa

We are one big happy family
God’s family, God’s family
We are one big happy family
God’s family are we


Ngarri jindaaga ngarri gaguuga
Baabagu waruungga
Bayi ngiyaanya

She is my sister,
He is my brother
Father in Heaven
Loves you and me.